My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Abraham Lincoln

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

J.K. Rowling

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.

Captain James

I try to practice with my life.

Herbie Hancock

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No heartbreak has grieved me as much to discover, the calorie content of my peanut butter.

Coco J. Ginger

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Michel Houellebecq

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Georges Bernanos

Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

Nancy Cartwright

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Mitt Romney

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

John Green